H. Fujii Store and Bakery

Located in Wailea Town next to Wailea Spanish Camp, H. Fujii Store and Bakery was a mainstay of the Wailea and Hakalau.

Memories Shared

Emi Uemura, who grew up in Hakalau Upper Camp, i.e. "Up Camp" remembers: "I had the pleasure of eating the fresh baked bread when it came out of the oven. During the summer months I went to sewing school run by Doris Kurisu Ito. Her dress shop was directly across from Fuji Bakery. Boy! you could smell the bread baking that made you hungry. She is the Aunty of Derek Kurisu."

​Cal Motoda, who grew up in Hakalau Lower Camp, i.e., "Down Camp", remembers: "I remember buying the pastries, especially the anpan and snails from Fujii Bakery. We used to buy Fujii bread when Haruo used to drive his delivery truck around the camps. Occasionally, we would help Haruo deliver some of the groceries in downcamp and he would give us an anpan after."

Roger Forbes lived in Wailea between 1954 and 1959 and remembers: "I spent a lot of my lunch money at Fujii store, They made good mince pie (5 cents) and a bottle of coke was 10 cents. I remember Mrs. Fujii telling me I was a good customer. Of course we know about the bakery and the bread slicing & packaging machine in the back. Yamamoto was a bigger store with more variety, but I can only remember being in there a couple of times. I hung out at Fujii." (His brother, Kenny, also remembers getting fresh, warm bread in the back and watching it get sliced. Fujii was his go-to store too.) ​